[Tristan]

Is it possible for me to remove my engine without using a crane at all?
At the moment i have stripped everything else just got the bare engine there maybe taking the head off would make it a bit easier(ps iam pretty buff so if it isnt that heavy maybe there is a good way of getting it out, just cant really afford a crane atm..

[Rusho]

Lift it out with a bar of some description and rope. I have done it before with mugwai. It was a 1.6 vit with everything on it. Try remove the grill if you can reduces the height you have to lift

[tanshi]

you could remove the grill and front diff and lower it down to the ground on a jack

[89_tintop]

They are light as.. If you take the head off it it will be lighter again.

[weaves]

Mate i can move them around with relative ease once they are out. If you have no clip or radiator in the way, i have no doubt you could easily lift it out. If not i would get a few mates around. a couple of chaines and a couple of nice big peices of 2x4 and do it that way.

My only worry would be putting it back in. Being able to hold it while you line up gearbox and stuff.

weaves.

[v.w.dave]

HAHAHAH but you are buff you should have flexed you LATTS and out it would have come hahahahaha.
BWAHahahaha

Do you have to go through the doors sideways???? HAHAHAHAHA

[Tristan]

v.w.dave wrote:

HAHAHAH but you are buff you should have flexed you LATTS and out it would have come hahahahaha.
BWAHahahaha

Do you have to go through the doors sideways???? HAHAHAHAHA

yea its real funny but actualy i do have to go sideways into some doors and my shower... more to do with being with broad shoulders tho rather then me working on them.

got everything stripped now exept the block how does the front clip come off ?

[PJ.zook]

To get front clip off you unbolt doors, remove any wiring thats attatching the front clips to the firewall, including battery, unbolt front bodymounts, and i think theres a couple of bolts inside of wheelarch

[Brett]

they weigh about 70 kg with every thing on you shold be right to lift it out

[shep]

Mad kenny can pick a complete 1.6 up off the ground and put it in the
Back of a car, he is a ginger but.

[TZAR]

shep wrote:

Mad kenny can pick a complete 1.6 up off the ground and put it in the
Back of a car, he is a ginger but.

I carried a 1.3 twin cam swift engine (complete) from the front yard (off the back of a ute)to the back yard and I am a ranga too.

[want33s]

Brenda-Anne (Lil-wagon) and I plucked a 1.3 out of a tintop the other day. NO DRAMAS at all!!!!...... No hoist or gantry just lifted it the old fashioned way.

[shep]

want33s wrote:

Brenda-Anne (Lil-wagon) and I plucked a 1.3 out of a tintop the other day. NO DRAMAS at all!!!!...... No hoist or gantry just lifted it the old fashioned way.

Did you have the power of the ginger helping?

[eldo]

honestly if you use some milk crates to stand on and a short enough rope you should be able to lift it out using a bar or 4x2 timber through the rope, suggest 3 people, 2 to lift and one to untangle the engine, you could also put the car on a jack and lower it as well to help get it over the front clip.

[BUZOOKA]

with help from my brother and father we pulled the motor out and back in the same way of mine with a piece of 4x2 and a rope and just take the radiator and fan and out first so it has room to move forward away from the gear box


cheers luke

[Fluffy]

shep wrote:

Did you have the power of the ginger helping?

we have a ranga up here we call the RULK

like the hulk but a ranga hulk goes red instead of green.. u need to channel your inner rulk and you'll be right to lift it out.. other wise you'll bust a phoofer valve

[Tristan]

sweet i have the power of the ginger with me!! I finaly have the front clip of looks like its going to be easy mode now thx for the help guys.

[2stroker]

Being too impatient to wait for help I picked up a 1300 of the back of my ute, held it against my chest with my hands under the sump and carried it about 20 metres down the driveway to a workbench, I had a flimsy tshirt on and two of the exhaust manifold studs were digging into me real bad but I was commited to the task and couldn't put it down till I got to the bench, when I put it down I saw that the studs had actually broken the skin. Three months later and I still have two perfectly round 10mm scars below my felt pec that look like bullet wounds.

Ok, lets get some pics up, people carrying engines and other heavy stuff.

[31zook]

haha i had a big enough truss in my shed to get a ratchet strap and cracked her up till it ran out then got a second strap and cranked till it ran out. coming down was different, i used some abseiling gear...

[2stroker]

Have you seen those lifting devices made out of a couple of pieces of metal and a piece of rope that they sell at a stall the ekka (sorry those not from Brisbane thats what we call our Brisbane Exhibtion or show) they feed a rope through it a couple of different ways and then get a kid to lift a V8 engine with ease.

[matty87]

2stroker wrote:

Have you seen those lifting devices made out of a couple of pieces of metal and a piece of rope that they sell at a stall the ekka (sorry those not from Brisbane thats what we call our Brisbane Exhibtion or show) they feed a rope through it a couple of different ways and then get a kid to lift a V8 engine with ease.

yeah those things are good got a set in my car all the time.
we built a type of hoist out of patio tube that bolts together and stradles a full size 4wd its got nylon on the feet so ya can slide it round with an engine on it. and got an old chain block that was condemed by someones work. its good for lifting the whole car to change tyres at home too. cost a grand total of about 50 bucks to make.

[squizzytaylor]

Hey dude, I have a 1.5 tonne ratchet lever block here you can borrow if it helps, I'm at Toronto.

pm me.